#Assault Suit Valken

[viciogame]

🎮 Metal Warriors (Super Nintendo)

Complete Gameplay: https://youtu.be/lOB9V00_8sE

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[kerbrobro]

TONIGHT AT 5 PM CST: I can never get enough of overly ambitious retro mecha games, so let's check out ASSAULT SUITS VALKEN on Switch! This port will also let us check out the manual, strategy guide, and other supplemental material full of story stuff and cool art!

[siryl]

Scanned from Wolverine (1988 series) #71.  Art by Tom DuBois.

[aardwolfpack]

Cybernator fanart by Guido Marinelli.

[kasperl-ruprecht]

Cybernator aka Assaults Suits Valken got a new release on the Nintendo Switch. Shame I don't have a Switch to check it out. Which is a damn shame because all the extra stuff they’re including in the new release sounds pretty cool. Hopefully there’ll be a Steam port or someone might “liberate” that extra content.

Before anyone asks, the Valken and the Leynos here are from the Video Game Robotics toy line, an offshoot of the Shooting Game Historica line by Yujin.

[carlocarrasco]

Retro Gaming Ads Blast – Part 19

Welcome back readers, fellow geeks and electronic gaming fans! In this edition of the Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) series, we will take a look at another batch of retro gaming print ads – including arcade flyers – from the 1980s and 1990s. For the newcomers reading this, Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) looks back at the many print ads of games (console, arcade, computer and handheld) that were…

[aroacegundamalex]

I love poking around on translation sites, because I always find something new to read or play.

[alicefromtheabyss]

and here's the arranged version of its happenin' for additional serotonin

maybe you'll feel better if you listen to the Cybernator SNES soundtrack

[daihime-sama]

End of stream report:

Tonight Hime-Sama beat Assault Suits Valken DECLASSIFIED, a modern port of a classic game! It sure is a tough one, good thing Hime-Sama loves cheating!

Hime-Sama says: "I have no shame so I used save states liberally!"

-RRA Social Media Team

[bancho-zx]

【Super NES】 Cybernator / Assault Suits Valken | 重装機兵ヴァルケン ~Intro

// Music: OPUS, Masanao Akahori | 赤堀正直

// MiSTer FPGA // SNES core // Y/C Composite // Sony KV-13TR20 CRT

[retroanimechris]

I recently, in collaboration with my source, archived their collection of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (安彦 良和)'s concept art for the cancelled 1990s Sunrise adaptation of Fabre's Book of Insects. To view the archives as well as some history on their background, visit below!

Website backup - https://t.co/9sjYoKkMBP

MEGA - https://t.co/bCGWGWCQZf

Internet Archive -https://t.co/FLOwznWKfD

History:

I was graciously allowed to document, clean and archive these illustrations created by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko during the early to mid 1990s by their original owner. I have been in conversation with the owner on Twitter for over two years now after they sent an open request to the community to identify the nature of these works and to help them locate any and all information about them. After touching base, we began our conversations, though the trail often ran cold.

To this date, the current definitive information on these pieces is as follows: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, while still employed actively by Sunrise's animation department in the early 1990s, created these pieces for an internally held contest to decide who would be in charge of character design for Sunrise's adaptation of Jean Henri Fabre's eponymous text. The dates of the contest are not known, though based on the illustration quality, I can personally say that these are very indicative of Yasuhiko's early 1990s hand and manner of rendering. This would place them in a window between 1990 to 1995 before he made a genuine departure from animation to focus on his work with manga.

Yasuhiko's animation credits, while ending in the early 1990s with F91 Gundam, did not totally cease. The 1990s proved to be a unique time in which Yasuhiko took major forays into character design work for titles such as Super Atragon, Assault Suits Valken II, and Chikyū SOS Soreike Kororin. However, the proposal for Fabre never took off and it became a phantom work, never to see the light of day again until my source was given these items.

These are pencil and watercolor/gouache renderings of the original character designs for not only the protagonist Fabre, but an additional 13 other characters drafted. Each drawing measures 25 cm in height and 20 cm in width (9 x 7 inches), and the character names and their related roles are glued on from clippings made in a word processor. under the character drawings. In addition, since all the characters are numbered from 1 to 13, it is believed that Each drawing is very careful and detailed, and Yasuhiko's specialty full-color watercolor technique and character creation can be seen on each item. These are believed to be the entirety of the lineup as each one is numbered 1-13.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko himself mentioned the animation of Fabre's Book of Insects in his lecture "Anime and Gundam in the 1970s" held at Hiroshima City University on August 3, 2008. Its existence is also known by his official biographer and interviewer Makoto Ishii. I, too, knew of their existence though only though asking Makoto via Twitter alongside my source, who was told in turn that these works were forgotten by Yasuhiko as well. However, since these works disappeared at the planning stage, they were never mentioned in any books such as "The Complete Works of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko" or "My Back Pages".

Since there are basically no materials left for the anime since it was canceled at the early planning stage, these works haven't seen the public eye. These pieces were preserved in museum glass and carefully stored for years and were photographed by me. I edited them to match their true color and dimensions as I don't have them physically on hand (they are now going to auction in commemoration of the opening of the "Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, the Artist" exhibition in Hyogo).

[obscurevideogames]

(SNES)

Cybernator box art (Konami, 1992)

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Super Famicom - Assault Suits Valken

Title: Assault Suits Valken / 重装機兵ヴァルケン

Developer/Publisher: NCS Masaya

Release date: 18 December 1992

Catalogue Code: SHVC-AV

Genre: Horizontal Shooter

No. of Players: 1

Many of you may know this game under its western title of Cybenator. You may also think that it was developed by Konami just like Prince of Persia was for the Super Famicom. Well, neither was developed by Konami. They only distributed the games in the West. Prince of Persia and this fine game, Assault Suits Valken were actually developed by NCS Masaya. In fact, NCS Masaya was responsible for so many great games on the Super Famicom, Mega Drive / Mega CD, Saturn, PC Engine, and other systems that it’s hard to even remember them all. They also produced quite a few stinkers, especially in the final days of the company. Thankfully, Assault Suit Valken is one of their quality games and part of the Assault Suit(s) series.

The Assault Suit(s) series started out life on the Mega Drive in 1990 under the title of Assault Suit Leynos (Target Earth in the US), Then came Assault Suits Valken (Cybernator in the West) in 1992. NCS went back to the Leynos title with Assault Suits Leynos 2 on the Saturn in 1997 which remained a Japanese exclusive. Up until now, the series was a fantastic but quite tough giant robot blaster. Then came the PlayStation games …….  Assault Suits Valken II was released in 1999 for the PlayStation but to the disappointment of many who were expecting a full-on follow-up to the SFC original, they ended up with an average strategy war game, YAWN!!!! The series then lay quiet for a couple of years until 2004 when Assault Suits Valken was re-released on the PlayStation 2 as one of those “enhanced” HD remakes. In reality, it was the original SFC game fitted with a really shitty graphics filter. Needless to say, it looks bloody awful. The SFC original running on an HD TV in 1080p via an XRGB looks a million times better.

Anyway, back to the game in question, the original Super Famicom version of Assault Suits Valken. During the western translation, a few cuts were made from the game. Most noticeable is the absence of all character portraits during the dialog scenes. Also, there’s a cut scene near the end of the game where the president of the defeated country commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. Finally, the ending is cut short in the Western release. Yep, Cybernator is missing a lot so your best bet would be to buy the Japanese version.

All of the Assault Suit(s) games are tough, and it was this toughness that put many people off the series. Because they couldn’t just charge through blasting away, they deemed the games rubbish but that’s not the case. Assault Suits Valken requires a lot of strategy and thought on where you want to be and how you should get there. It’s this “take it slowly and steady” pace of gameplay that really makes the game stand out amongst all the other shooters out there.

Graphically the game is no slouch either. Loads of detail have gone into the backgrounds and sprites as well as having some very nice intermission screens that wouldn’t look out of place on a Saturn or PlayStation game. Audio is fantastic too. Fitting atmospheric tunes throughout as well as one of the greatest ending themes found on a Super Famicom game. It’s right up there with the ending theme from Contra for movie style.

Assault Suits Valken isn’t for everyone but if you seriously love your platform shooters, you’ll love this.  It was a great game to play in 1992 and it’s still a great game to play now in 2024, 32 years after its release.

[dreebo]

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Assault suits Valken II.

[ethandoesathing]

"𝐅𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐈𝐑 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭 𝟎𝟓, 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐫𝐮𝐧!"

Wanted to make something completely original this time around. I wanted to go with the vibe of "box art of an obscure PS1/Sega Saturn game". Very much inspired by games like Assault Suits Valken/Cybernator, and Armored Core.

[gengamer110]

Nintendo Switch eShop Deals

There is another sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop featuring some quality games. Let’s start with the Valis series, but other Edia games are discounted as well. You can buy the collections or the games individually, such as the Telenet Shooting Collection, which I covered here and here on my YouTube channel. Hogwarts Legacy is another, more recent game, which is on sale. Assault Suits Valken…